Pôr do Sol

'Por do Sol' is a comedy series that tries to mimic a traditional Portuguese soap opera. It takes all of of the usual soap opera cliches (the family struggles in a rural homestead, the illegitimate children, the convulted love triangles, the overly dramatic dialogs, the evil revenge-seeking siblings, the slaps, lots of slapping...) and doubles down on them to ridiculous levels, adding lots of nonsense in between.

What truly makes it endearing is the amount of running gags based on Portuguese pop culture - this is not a show you can watch just with English subtitles withouth being familiar with Portuguese culture, otherwise you will miss most of the references. The humour density is often pretty high even though each episode can be hit or miss.

While some jokes do get a bit repetitive, and some characters become pretty adimensional overtime, Season 2 does breathe new life on most subplots, adding new angles and surprising twists to some initially bland characters.

The irony of it all is that funny enough, it actually becomes interesting to watch the story unfold, and while you may have started watching it for the silly jokes and the soap opera satire, you will probably stay for the endearing characters and the bizzarre plot.

A must watch for Portuguese television.

Unfortunately, usually in portuguese productions the main issue is the "writing", but fortunately, in this case the writing is simply superb! This is a "telenovela" mocking with "telenovelas" with refined non-sense and intelligent comedy. Besides, the acting and the directing are also brilliant! It is a bold kind of show that was missing in portuguese television. I think that both telenovela fans as well as non-fans will laugh a lot with "Pôr do Sol"!

A brilliant production with great actors. A true satire to traditional soap operas, making fun of all the usual cliches used. Several references to Portuguese cultural and social environment and characters. Funny, stupid (in a good way) and compulsive to watch.

A marvelous telenovela created from the absurd and non sense that makes it so amazingly. Storyline, cast and director are superb. I can imagine the bloopers!

The script is superb, mocking regular soap operas and all it's clichés - and when I say all, I really mean it.

All the cast members are mainly actors of those "classic" soap operas, which makes scenes even funnier, and manages to showcase they're acting skylls.

Many references could be lost in translation as they're based on social and portuguese entertainment, but if you liked movies like "Airplane" and "The Naked Gun" mashed up with Monty Python type of comedy, you'll get the overall picture.

Shout out to Rui Melo (actor and writer) and Gabriela Barros (hilarious!!!), Henrique Dias Cardoso (idea/Writer) and all cast and crew (even the score is awesome).

Last but not least, let's not forget the featured band, Jesus Quisto, their music reportoire and all vocal members, the riskier job ever (lol)!

Well done!